Salsa Babies

Yesterday, Juliet and I attended a Salsa Babies class.  I wasn't sure exactly what it was - I was attending as a guest of my friend Sylwia who joined this class which runs 8 or 10 weeks.  Turns out it's a class of about 20 moms (and babies) who do salsa dancing while wearing their babies in a carrier.  It's kind of similar to aerobics, although not quite as bouncy.  I don't have any kind of dance background, so I sort of felt like I had two left feet.  The instructor would have to show us the choreography a couple of times and even then I didn't always get it.  I think it's the sort of thing that would be really easy to pick up if you had taken dance classes as a kid, but it wasn't so easy for me.  I made a mental note that we should put Juliet into dance classes so that she's not a klutz like her mom.

Nonetheless, I had fun and I think it was a great workout.  By the end, most of the babies (including Juliet) had fallen asleep in all the carriers because of all the movement.  And I was so sweaty that Juliet was wet from all the sweat and I thought she had leaked through her diaper, but really it was just my sweat that soaked through to her.  Gross!

Here are a few of the moms I met, along with their babes.  My friend Sylwia and her baby, Gabriel, are on the far left.  I don't know why I'm standing funny in this picture.

Sylwia's husband, Mitch, holds Juliet.  He's really tall - like definitely way over 6 feet - so I think Juliet was seeing the world from a high place for the first time and was mesmerized by the view.